This is what happens to a cheeseburger in your stomach

It’s difficult to see what happens to food inside your body because we aren’t transparent, and it’s just as difficult to get a camera inside to watch for extended periods of time. What we do know is that our stomachs are full of hydrochloric acid.

The guys over at The Periodic Table of Videos, also known as the science department at Nottingham University, decided to recreate the basic food breakdown process of the human stomach by demonstrating what happens to a cheeseburger in hydrochloric acid.

The results, as you can see in the video, are not pretty. The burger turns black and goes slimy. Other acids are required to digest the fat, of which there is quite a bit in your typical burger.

So next time you have a cheeseburger and still have a full stomach a few hours later, know that it definitely doesn’t look like a burger anymore. Yuck.

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livenlrge

Have you tried this on healthy foods to see what happens? I just joined Geek.

lostcause028

this is freakin stupid. for one: the level of acid in your stomach has been proven to do nothing for digestion only for killing bacteria; two, they have condensed the acid to such a high degree it would desolve anything including your intestines, bones and diamonds if you had any in your body. we all know that mcdonalds will kill you, this is nothing new. but these relentless smear campains like this and supersize me arn’t doing any good against the obeisity epidemic in this country. the only thing that will convince the fat pieces of crap in this country to stop eating is cold hard cash. we need to tax these worthless foods more so that its accually cheaper to go buy a salad instead.
ps. a salad isnt any good if you pour a litre of ranch on top of it

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@lostcause

This was a bunch of geeky people putting a cheeseburger in hydrochloric acid, not propaganda you idgit! This has about as much to do with a smear campaign as someone dropping mentos into a coke bottle.